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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by impendia on Thursday May 10, 2012 @11:53AM (#3954157)
Regarding the "recent developments", RTP jumps out on the following map:

http://www.wral.com/news/political/page/10991843/

Durham and Orange Counties voted no by over 2-1 margins. And meanwhile, Proposition 8 passed in California a few years back; indeed, such propositions have been passed everywhere in the US where they've been put to the voters as a whole. North Carolina is not distinguished in this respect.

I personally like San Francisco over RTP, despite originally being from Durham, but there is a lot that is very good about the RTP area, and I personally know a lot of very talented people who are extremely happy (if, admittedly, a little bit less so this week...) to call it home.

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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by simplemind on Thursday May 10, 2012 @12:13PM (#3954258)
Not to be nitpicky, but NC did distinguish itself from Proposition 8 in banning civil unions and domestic partnerships, too.

NC is a wonderful place, I was making the comment that now it's just a little harder to recruit great people there. Perception matters when scaling a company. Starting a 10 person team is probably fine. Scaling to a 100-200 team gets that much harder.

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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by cchurch on Thursday May 10, 2012 @01:45PM (#3954839)
What on earth does this have to do with technical talent?

Projecting your political opinions a bit?

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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by djcapelis on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:17PM (#3955379)
Some technical talent is directly impacted by these types of laws and we care. The last time I got an e-mail asking me about a position in Qatar I just sent back a link to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar along with a few polite words.

The guy was sympathetic, but we both knew that was the end of that conversation.

For some of us this isn't a matter of politics, but an impact on our quality of life. And for others of us, it may just be a matter of politics, but even then, that doesn't mean it's trivial.

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Re:Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut H... by impendia on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:08PM (#3955727)
In Richard Florida's "The Rise of the Creative Class", he describes an experiment, complete with empirical data, that show an overwhelming positive correlation between gay-friendliness and positive economic outlook.
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